Monthly Guild Meeting
November 18, 2024
7:00 PM EST
Fancy Weaving: A figured coverlet, a Jacquard Machine, and the process of recovering knowledge with Justin Squizzero
This presentation kicks off with a brief overview of how Justin came to handweaving and then details the history of his Jacquard equipment, how the loom works, and the entire process of recreating a coverlet woven in 1830.
If interested in joining our guild, please send an email to ehgmembership@gmail.com
Join us at 7:00 PM on Monday, September 16, 2024, by Zoom, as Jennifer Moore presents:
Double Rainbow: An Evolution in Color
My work in doubleweave has always focused on the interaction of color between the two layers of cloth. I will show a number of images of my work in doubleweave pickup that play one solid colored layer against a layer in a gradation of a spectrum of colors. In 2016 I began developing a system of color rotations in both the warp and the weft that combine with all of the possibilities for bringing different colors to the surface of the cloth and weaving in multiple blocks. I will show how this idea developed for me and the process that I go through in designing my textiles in my Double Rainbow technique.
If interested in joining our guild, please send an email to ehgmembership@gmail.com
The Eastside Handweavers have several study groups, if you are interested in joining the guild send an email to ehgmembership@gmail.com
Swedish in-lay weaving - Thursday, October 3, 2024 at 7:00 pm EDT. This is a new study group this year. All members are welcome.
Spinning - Monday, September 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM EDT. All members are welcome
Advanced Weavers - Tuesday, September 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM EDT. All members are welcome. This year the group will be studying Block weaves and Profile Drafts.
Beginning Weavers - Monday, September 23, 2024 at 7:00 PM EDT - All beginning weavers are welcome.
Thirteen members of the Eastside Handweavers spent a warm day in July dyeing yarn, fabric, and scarves.
The Eastside Handweavers Guild Programs for the year 2024-2025
All programs are via Zoom unless otherwise noted
Monday, May 20, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Zoom Meeting
Our May meeting winds up the year with the Study Group Showcase, the year in review, and a look into the 2024-2025 programs and workshops.
To join send an email to ehgmembership@gmail.com
In March member Ami provided us with a mini zoom workshop on needle felting a bee. Here are some of the results of that day.
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Guild Monthly Meeting
April 15, 2024
7:00 PM EDT
Shibori Indigo Dyeing with Cindy Root
Join us on Monday, April 15th to hear about Cindy’s exploration into Shibori Indigo Dyeing.
Cindy is not only a member of our guild she is also the current president of MLH (Michigan League of Handweavers) She recently took a Shibori and Indigo Dyeing workshop with David Heustess.
Guild Monthly Meeting
March 18, 2024
7:00 PM EST
Meta Weaves with Liz Hill
Join us on Monday, March 18th to hear about “Meta Weaves” with Liz Hill.
Liz Hill is a handweaver living in Western Massachusetts with her wonderful husband and her very bad dog in an intermittently empty nest (degree of emptiness dependent on where her three adult children are in their life adventures and what her current loom count is).
“There are many great essays about the importance of craft, and handweaving in particular, but I can only write about what handweaving means to me, and why I have spent much of the last 25 years immersed in it – warping, weaving, teaching, designing, writing, etc.”
February 19, 2024
7:00 PM EST
Color, Pattern, Shape: From Inspiration to Design
with Karen Donde
Ever get stuck trying to decide what to weave, knit, dye or felt next? This group exercise is designed to rev up your design engine and organize the many options available to you for creating cloth or the objects you make with it. Bring interesting pictures cut from magazines or old calendars, printed pictures from a vacation or your garden, whatever catches your eye. We’ll sort by various design parameters, organize your inspirations in a sketchbook, discuss ways to formulate them into a design and share ideas among the group. Leave with new design tools and maybe your next project.
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